This summer, you can look for hotel rates in the U.S. to be up some 7 percent over last year, airfares to be up only 2 percent, and car rental rates to be down 8 percent, if you buy now. That's the current finding from Hotwire, the big online agency that does an outstanding job of mining its own database of online transactions. But those figures are nationwide averages, and you remember the old saying "a statistician is someone who drowns wading in a river that averages three feet deep." So Hotwire pulled some detailed conclusions from its data -- presented with a few of my own interpolations. Let's start with hotel accommodations, where Hotwire expects higher demand and...

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